Grand Theft Auto VI cover story teases Leonida’s weather and wildlife

Game Informer’s 14-page feature draws on interviews with Rockstar designers and includes 12 new screenshots plus original Jason and Lucia cover art.

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Game Informer’s September 25 cover reveal says issue 382 devotes 14 pages to Grand Theft Auto VI, with interviews from Rockstar Games lead designers and 12 new screenshots. The feature focuses on how the studio built Leonida, including advanced weather systems, wildlife across land, air and sea, and research into Miami and Florida. Rockstar supplied original cover art featuring Jason Duval and Lucia Caminos. The digital issue is due September 29, with print copies following in subscribers’ mailboxes and stores.

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Grand Theft Auto VI is the cover story for Game Informer issue 382, with a 14-page feature built around interviews with several lead designers at Rockstar Games. The magazine’s cover reveal says the reporting concentrates on Leonida, Rockstar’s Florida-inspired setting, and how the studio tried to make it feel both culturally specific and unusually alive.

The reveal previews three areas of attention. Rockstar discusses advanced weather systems designed to simulate the less-sunny side of Florida’s climate, the volume of native and non-native wildlife spread across land, air and sea, and the research used to recreate Miami and the wider state. Those are teasers for the full feature rather than a complete account of the new systems, so the reveal does not yet explain how they affect missions or free-roaming play.

The writer, a lifelong South Florida resident, says that local perspective informed the interview and the feature’s attention to cultural and visual accuracy. That framing matters because Leonida is not merely a renamed map location: the cover package is explicitly interested in how Rockstar studied a real place and translated its climate, animals and regional identity into the game.

Twelve new screenshots and a Rockstar cover

The cover story includes 12 exclusive screenshots showing more of the game’s locations and residents. Its cover uses original Rockstar artwork of protagonists Jason Duval and Lucia Caminos sitting in a red convertible against a pastel Vice City skyline.

That artwork makes the issue a physical collectible as well as a preview package, but the magazine is not limited to print. Game Informer says the digital edition will be available September 29. Print copies are expected to reach subscribers and appear in bookstores and newsstands in the following weeks.

The cover reveal does not publish the complete designer interviews or all of their findings. For now, its clearest new information is the scope of the reporting: a long feature about the systems and fieldwork behind Leonida, supported by new images rather than another trailer-sized glimpse.

Grand Theft Auto VI cover story teases Leonida’s weather and wildlife

Game Informer’s 14-page feature draws on interviews with Rockstar designers and includes 12 new screenshots plus original Jason and Lucia cover art.

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Grand Theft Auto VI cover story teases Leonida’s weather and wildlife

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Twelve new screenshots and a Rockstar cover

Grand Theft Auto VI cover story teases Leonida’s weather and wildlife

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Twelve new screenshots and a Rockstar cover

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